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State Network Information

The California legislature authorized auxiliary funding for the 96-97 fiscal year for this project to assure that each of the designated community college sites have established necessary infrastructure capability for teleconferencing, connections to CSUnet and satellite downlink capabilities, The CalREN-2 network is the most effective advanced communications service available to all higher education in California

CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation the California Institute of Technology CA State University, Stanford Univ, Univ of CA, Univ of Southern CA, CA Community Colleges and the statewide K-12 school system. CENIC’s mission is to facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment and operation of a set of robust multi-tiered advanced network services for this research and education community

The Board of Director is the main controlling body of CENIC and CalRen. The CENIC Board of Directors consists of three board members each for CSU, UC and CCC. One member each for Stanford, USC, and CalTech and two outside members: Ron Johnson, Univ of Washington and Larry Smarr, CA Institute of Telecommunications and Technology. There are three advisory councils to the Board: Business Advisory Council (BAC). Digital CA-Technical Advisory Council (DC-TAC) High Performance Research (HPR-TAC)

There are three levels of CalRen they include CalRen-XD, CENIC’s experimental and developmental network will support bleeding-edge services for network researched at sites. CalREN-HPR, CENIC’s high performance research network provides leading edge services for large application users and CENIC associates sites. CalREN-DC, CENIC’s Digital CA network provides high quality services for K-20 students faculty researchers and staff. CENIC’s support of K-12 networking extends the existing CalREN backbone